It’s becoming increasingly necessary to make an analysis of the research studies channeled by the Havana Biennial in an effort to move beyond the curatorial field that apparently zeroes in on the work of art.
Sometimes I’ve said on television that in the face of the music video’s drive into ethno-esthetic profiles and the social-cultural expressions of certain individuals and groups, we should take on the notion of the anthropological video.
Will Duchamp’s lesson never end? It always sneaks in through an unexpected place –a window, for example– when nobody expects it, just another twist on that virtually endless inspiration for art over the last hundred years.
Scenes within scenes. A theater entertained by the deliriousness of the boxes inside the frame
Claudio Antonio Gomes was born in Belo Horizontes, Brazil, in 1972 and has lived in Salvador de Bahia over the past thirteen years.
Antonio Martorell is a regular Havana visitor, a city where he admits to have found new confidences and drives for his life and artistic career.
Venturing into the brain-racking task of mapping out and defining the connections in the diversity of identities and cultures lodged in the Latin American and Caribbean region might seem to be a somewhat worthless, yet necessary effort based on th
An artist’s monographic book is not always breaking news.
When the past century came to a close , the Caribbean art was basking in the international limelight. The 1990s were fertile in the opening of regional exchanges and in terms of major world-class exhibition events. The Caribbean plastic arts had…
I remember that a few years ago information on Central America’s artistic scene was scarce and misleading. On nations like Nicaragua, it used to be far more disappointing. No wonder one of the exhibits that tried to scour certain zones of the…
The fact that America is a young people is borne out, first of all, by the very history of the United States. The arch of sense that would fundamentally span from the 2000 to the 2008 presidential elections speaks plentiful volumes about the youth…
The invisibility of Paraguay’s arts in the world scene is not under discussion; it’s a fact. A shroud of silence wraps the country’s cultural creation. Even in the South Cone, Paraguay is still draped under a heavy haze, barely known for the…
Jose Bedia has never bee n properly an artis t. He ’s never wanted to be. Either way, he’s always been trying to avoid it, to escape from art just like any hounded animal in peril would do. Just as much as one of those deer or foxes splayed in his…
In your view, what were the main achievements of ARCOmadrid 08 and what influence did they exert in the conception of the 2009 edition? The main achievement of last year’s edition was its strengthening as one of the leading international fa